This week-end has been very busy. First, I did the cake for my friends grandmother who turned 90, a triple layer lemon with lemon custard filling. It smelled so good!
Then today the family gathered at Mom's to begin hauling things to be taken to our homes, sorting through things , cleaning out the greenhouse, basement and garage for the new owners, burning lots of wood and cardboard, and recalling so many memories. We sat around the dining room table for the last time ever, and all of us had the same thought. Where will we do this now? So we're going to make the second bedroom in Mom's apartment into a dining room, and continue to have our family gatherings there. It won't be the same as the homestead, but it's the family and laughter that make it special, not the building. (At least that's what we're trying to convince ourselves of...)
Then we gathered on the front steps for one last family photo. My brother Jay, Mom, Jay's wife and our sister Cheryl, (we don't use the word in-law in our family. Once your here, you're one of us) my sister Marlene, me and my sisters Kathy, and Wendy, and my husband Ken.
So Tuesday she gets her key, and we'll move her in. And the door will close, along with that chapter of our lives.
Bill is a snapping turtle that took up residence in the drain that runs alongside the front of the house. We named him Bill, well, basically because he looked like one to Robyn and me. Today, Ken found him swimming in the driveway, flooded from yesterdays rain. Personally, my cat Andy won the prize for the better looking animal contrary to popular opinion!
Chip is quite the unique little dog, with a very quirky personality. He has built himself his own little stash pile, of things he has found in ours and Robyn's yard Since this picture was taken it has grown to accommodate a rag bone, old glove, half of a plastic egg, all the sticks collected by himself, a toy teddy bear, pods from Robyn's tree, plastic juice bottles from the triplets, a purple rag, a carrot squeaky toy,and the list goes on! When he goes outside, he rolls around in the middle of his treasures, and is in 7th Heaven! You can see him at any time, picking up items and bringing them home to place in the increasing pile. I think he has watched Ken too much, and picked up his junk picking habits!
